Packaging Summit

Following the great success of the Packaging Summit at PyCon US we're looking to bring the same event again to EuroPython.

Python packaging is a rapidly changing (and hopefully improving) landscape, historically and currently plagued by many problems. Solving these problems requires a high degree of coordination between various stakeholders; to name a few:

• Creators of packaging tools (e.g., Setuptools, pip, conda, Poetry, uv)
• Maintainers of Python libraries
• Developers of Python applications
• Distributors of downstream packages (e.g., Fedora, Debian)
• Consumers of Python packages (e.g., end-users, corporate developers)

The goal of this summit is to try to take advantage of the fact that, at EuroPython we can get a high concentration of these stakeholders in one room at the same time. This allows us to sync up on current and future best practices and to quickly come to agreements that would take months or even years over higher-latency media of discussion (e.g., mailing lists, forums, issue tickets).